On April 27, 2011, Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Executive Network at Symantec in Mountain View. The Executive Networks people took notes; here are the main points from my presentation. Work Is Changing. Work is no longer just doing just what is in your job description. In 1986, 75% of the knowledge that a worker needed was stored in their heads. Fowler.

Laura Layton-James is a long-standing colleague of mine who has recently started her own blog, Purple Learning. couldn’t help but be intrigued by one of her recent posts on learning cupcakes. She writes: I like to think of traditional training as a wedding cake: a rich mix of the right ingredients to make a delicious creation perfect for the traditional wedding. But so what? links are free!

by Kevin Siegel. Adding a Table of Contents to your published Captivate project is a great idea. you'll be giving your learners an easy way to navigate through the lesson. Of course, adding a TOC to your lesson comes with a cost. you'll be adding a few hundred pixels to the overall width of your lesson. There is a way to have your cake and eat it too.

About ten years ago, now, Jay Cross and I met and with some other colleagues, started what we called the Meta-Learning Lab. We’ve maintained our interest in meta-learning across our involvement now with the Internet Time Alliance , and a component we identified as one of the most valuable activities you can do is reflection. We don’t mean just navel-gazing, of course, but instead we mean systematically stepping back and reviewing ongoing activity with a view towards looking for improvement. Even more so if it’s shared. This improves the thinking. 70:20:10 ). mobile social
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Thoughts on Elliot Masie's Lectora User Conference Keynote. By Jay Lambert. This year's 2011 Lectora user conference provided my first opportunity to hear learning futurist Elliot Masie ( of The Masie Center ) speak live; he didn't disappoint. We were treated to both his keynote and a follow-up conversation on his view of the learning industry's present and future. was excited to see that so many of us are on the same page. As Masie said, we are at an age of incredible learning development opportunity. Maybe he didn't come right out and make that statement, but that was my takeaway. mobile).
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There's lots of interesting stuff coming out this week on using Twitter as a training tool. First, Terrence Wing is moving like a house afire, first with this nice piece on using Twitter as a training platform, then with this great YouTube demonstration of using the video widget in the new Twitter interface to support delivery of a whole course via Twitter. You can visit Twitter to see the course, too.) Then last night I happened to check into the new episode of Grey's Anatomy , which included a whole storyline about using Twitter as a training tool. Everybody won--including Twitter.
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The Extended Enterprise blog post and directory will be visible this weekend. Well, a lot has been happening in the past three months, from SaaS driven to talent management to course authoring to name changes and everything in between. Without further adieu, Talent Management/Performance Management (TM/PM). Three months ago, only a few systems had either integrated for no additional charge or for additional fees, a talent management/performance management feature set. Ahh, how things have changed. A couple of vendors have added HRIS modules. What do you do? Prediction. small biz, smb, etc.)
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Employees learn best when they have guidance, support, and performance feedback from someone they trust and respect in the organization. Ideally, this is a boss, supervisor, coach, or mentor who knows why that learning is important and how it aligns with strategic business goals. Managers, at all organizational levels, should have regular learning-focused conversations with the people who report to them. In these conversations, described in our book, The 5As Framework , managers should ask: What do you need to learn in order to help this organization achieve its business goals?
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